THE police officers who shot dead innocent suicide bomb suspect Jean Charles de Menezes at a Tube station last year will not face charges, according to a tabloid newspaper.

There is insufficient evidence of criminal offences in the shooting of the 27-year-old Brazilian at Stockwell Station, in south London, on July 22, according to a lawyer reviewing the case for the Crown Prosecution Service.

Mr De Menezes was shot in the head seven times by officers who mistook him for a suicide bomber in the wake of last July's London bombings.

The lawyer quoted in The Sun said: "Mistakes were made but they do not amount to criminal misconduct.

"The firearms officers were acting under orders. Those in charge of surveillance believed he was a suspect.

"There is no realistic prospect that they will be prosecuted."

It was also reported that a "plausible explanation" was given as to why a police logbook was changed after the shooting to say the electrician was not the suspect being hunted.

The senior officers in charge of the operation will also be cleared, according to the newspaper.

A report by the Independent Police Complaints Commission (IPCC), will only be made public at the end of any trials relating to the case.

A "senior lawyer" from the CPS special crime devision is considering the report.

The CPS last month said it would decide by Easter whether to charge any of the police involved, but as yet nothing has been announced.

Scotland Yard also received a copy of the document, along with the Metropolitan Police Authority, which oversees the force, and the Inner South London coroner John Sampson, who will hold the ultimate inquest into Mr de Menezes's death.